Further to our previous posting about the new student email system, Outlook Web App (part of Microsoft’s cloud based Office365 offering), we are pleased to confirm that the new system will go live during the winter vacation on 30 January 2013. We now have a pilot group of c60 students live on the system […]
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Have eduroam will travel
Stirling University offers the eduroam service to its staff and students to allow you to access the Internet on your own devices (laptops, ipads, phones etc) at other participating UK and worldwide institutions. See the eduroam list of participating institutions for more info on where you can eduroam: http://www.eduroam.org/index.php?p=where The Information Centre at Stirling Campus […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Monday 26th November 2012
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Monday 26th November at 11.00, Cottrell 2A13, Stirling Campus. Please note the change of time for this meeting to 11.00. All are welcome. Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Professor David […]
New Succeed panels for Reading lists and Listen Again
Panels are the name for the ‘boxes’ that appear on your My Succeed page, for example ‘My Courses’. You can add new panels to your My Succeed and Information Services has created two new panels: ‘My Reading Lists’ — this panel will show all reading lists from your modules and the reading list can […]
Student email – security settings tightened so a tweak to your browser may be necessary
During the summer, it was necessary to tighten up security on the student email servers. As a result of this, those of you using Internet Explorer may need to make a small change to your Internet Options as follows: Go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced tab, then scroll down the list of […]
Succeed Downtime
Succeed Downtime Succeed will be down from 09.00-17.00 on Saturday 25th August to upgrade Succeed to service pack 9 (it’s current on 7) and upgrade the database that Succeed uses as well. These changes bring Succeed into line with the recommended version of the database and the latest set of enhancements and bug fixes, […]
Succeed training: Introduction to Succeed for instructors
eLD will be running training sessions for staff who will be building and running courses in Succeed (instructors) over the next few weeks. Six Succeed training sessions have been arranged on the following dates/times: Wed 22nd August (09.30-12.00) Thu 23rd August (14.00-16.30) Fri 24th August (09.30-12.00) Mon 27th August (14.00-16.30) Tue 28th August (09.30-12.00) […]
Further Internet service downtime,
I refer to the earlier message relating to downtime on 7th August (reproduced below). As it was not possible to complete all of the work necessary in the time available there will be a further period of disruption to services between 0730 and 0830 next Tuesday, 14th August. The impacts of the outage will be […]
Internet service downtime, Tuesday 7th August,
Owing to necessary changes in the configuration of the University’s JANET connection, there will be disruption to all Internet services between 0730 and 0830 tomorrow morning, 7th August. Users at all three campuses may have difficulty accessing the Internet and University websites hosted at Stirling will be inaccessible from the web for short periods during […]
New report on Open Access Publishing – “Expanding Access to Research Publications”
The report of the Working Group chaired by Dame Janet Finch published on 18 June recommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research. Better, faster communication of research results will bring benefits for public services and for economic growth. It will also bring improved efficiency […]